Google Summer Of Code
Welcome to the EiffelStudio's participation in the Google Summer of Code 2009. You will find below a list of project ideas for students who want to participate in the 2009 event. Students will be mentored by an experienced member from the Eiffel Software team.
If you have a suggestion, create a new page describing your project using this template and reference it below.
Warning: Google hasn't announced the list of accepted mentor organizations yet. So all this is under the assumption that Eiffel Software is accepted to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2009.
What is the Google Summer of Code?
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects.
Read the Google Summer of Code 2009 FAQ for more details about the program.
Projects
Builds
- EPI-BU-0001: Building PorterPackages for various platforms
- EPI-BU-0002: Building Linux packages
Compiler
- EPI-CO-0001: Save Eiffel Configuration File in a non-XML format
Libraries
- EPI-LI-0001: Better Unicode support
- EPI-LI-0002: String and file format encoding
- EPI-LI-0003: Encoding facilities
- EPI-LI-0004: Library discovery
- EPI-LI-0005: Various kind of archives (TAR, GZIP, ZIP, ...) support
EiffelStudio
- EPI-ES-0001: Integrate SCM support
- EPI-ES-0002: Update notification
Tools
- EPI-TO-0001: Integration to SCons
